New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1887-06-08
a Home Of Our Own.

a Home Of Our Own.
I write this from under my own vint
and fig tree, from beneath aroof oi
my own. I am a landed proprietor, &
taxpayer. the owner of a bit of ground.
and ahouse in the freshness and beauty
Of its first painting and papering and
polishing. Ever since our marriage.
seven years ago, my wife and I have
longed for this day to come We have
saved and 'scrimped' and hoped and
prayed for it, and at last it has come.
We have paid out hundreds of dollars
in rent, and been moved and hustled
around from house to house, and place.
to place, in the nomadic manner too
common among young married people
in America. E 81
No one can know with what a breath
of infinite relief I said last week to
Mrs. Dane, at the close of a wearisome
moving day, "Well, my dear, thank
the fates, this is our last move.''
Swell, I hope so, for goodness's
sake" said Mrs. Dane with marked
force.
And when our two cherished Brussels
carpets were being cut and slashed into
SO recklessly, to fit the parlor and sit
ting room, Mrs. Dane said, gratefully.
..Well, it's the last time they II have to
be cut, for they are down to stay now;
that's one consolation
The home we are so happy in is not
all paid for, but we see our way clear
to pay for it in time, and any kind of a
home is preferable to lifelong paying
OF rent. Young married people should
start out in life with the fixed de-
termination of putting a roof over
their heads they can call their own;
and this is not such u very hard thing
to do in these days of loan and build
ing associations and cheap rates of in
terest. My interest and taxes are not
much more than half the amount I
have been paying in rents.
1t is difficult to define the feeling one
has in home Of ones own. There is
something in being a stlanded proprie-
tor that tones one up wonderfully,
and adds dignity and earnestness to
life. You literally feel that you are
somebody. Life takes on new mean
ing and new joys; you have something
to live for and work for. I actually
felt positive pleasure in paying ny
taxes yesterday, and felt sorry for the
poor fellows who haven't any taxes to
pay.
l set out some rose bushes last week,
exulting in the thought that they were
mine, and neither they nor were sub
ject to the whim or the interests of
some real estate agent, who could
give US thirty days notice and then
turn us adrift.
No longer am I member of the
mighty and miserable army of house
hunters. My rent days are done. I
drive nails and tacks and hammer and
pound when and where I please
When come home from my Office at
night, it is home indeed to me.
And when one has children it is
more necessary than ever that there be
a place for them that they can call
home; place that they can love and
remember as home throughout all
their after lives. hope to see the
children of my eight.months' old baby
playing in this house some day. We
have bought a good house because we
think we shall live in this city all our
lives, and we never want to go
through the miserles of another family
move.
A home of your own is, I insist, the
very best investment a young couple
can make. It is something worth
saving, and working, and living for.
Good Housekeeping.